Grant Thompson, who--along with our own Brian Doyle--runs the Cosmos Club's gay book club, recently wrote to an Australian publisher, The Bookshop Darlinghurst, soliciting suggestions for contemporary gay novels from Down Under. He was kind enough to share the list he received with me, so now I am spreading the wealth.
Nearly all of them are available from Amazon, so those are the links I've embedded. But all of the titles are available from The Bookshop, in case you want to do your part for Aussie-Yank relations and order from them directly--as Grant has done and I intend to do. :-)
Down the Hume by Peter Polites
King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett
Bodies of Men by Nigel Featherstone (available only from the publisher)
The Nowhere by Chris Gill
Fairyland by Sumner Locke Elliott
Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave
Note that this last selection is a memoir, not a novel. The publisher describes it as "the quintessential Aussie love story, a real-life tale of love and loss set in Melbourne and Sydney from the 1960s through the 1990s. It holds a very special place in the hearts of Aussies, and has been adapted into a play and a movie, available on DVD."
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